French Verbs Made Easy

Book excerpt: Having trouble getting your head round FRENCH VERBS? They aren't half as difficult as you may think.This brightly coloured book, with its accompanying set of YouTube videos, is designed to be the perfect desk companion for any teacher of French, or beginner, KS3 or GCSE student. The whole French verb system is boiled down to its simplest components, to make it as easy as possible to understand and memorise.The basic philosophy is to explain in visual terms what happens to individual verbs or groups of verbs, as a teacher would explain it. Recurring patterns are made crystal-clear. The stems of verbs are carefully lined up so that you can easily follow the changes that occur. Different colours immediately highlight patterns. Tricky irregularities and important variations are marked in a range of colours, bold type, italics, capital letters and underlining. You can quickly see the main groups of verbs and you will learn how easy it is to form different tenses and when to use them.The rationale behind this method of setting out verbs was born of the author's six decades of experience teaching French in school classrooms and in one-to-one tutoring. The whole book has been recorded in a series of videos - like short lessons, with correct pronunciation and spellings read out. Search for "Rosemary's French Verbs Made Easy" on YouTube (published March 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9kie1dzEV0MIwlcCs0ohqg ).